Quotes About Adaptation

Change is ongoing. Everything changes in some way—size, position, composition, frequency, velocity, thinking, whatever. Every living thing, every bit of matter, all the energy in the universe changes in some way. I don't claim that everything changes in every way, but everything changes in some way.

She went to him. She adjusted, became a quieter more subdued person. She didn't kill, but she died a little.

We'll adapt. We'll have to. God is Change. Strange how much it helps me to remember that.

Our adults haven't been wiped out by a plague so they're still anchored in the past, waiting for the good old days to come back. But things have changed a lot, and they'll change more. Things are always changing. This is just one of the big jumps instead of the little step-by-step changes that are easier to take. People have changed the climate of the world. Now they're waiting for the old days to come back.

God is Change, and in the end, God prevails. But God exists to be shaped.

Imparando e adattandosi una vittima di Dio può diventare un suo compagno. Con lungimiranza e pianificazione una vittima di Dio può diventare un suo plasmatore. Oppure, per ristrettezza mentale e paura può restare vittima di Dio, il suo giocattolo, la sua preda.

From what I've read the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change. -Earthseed

c'era voluta un'epidemia per far capire alla gente che le cose potevano cambiare.

What's your point?" "The changes." I thought for a moment. "They were slow changes compared to anything that might happen here, but it took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change.

Anyanwu said. "This is the way I look when I do nothing. And this is the way I look when I marry a new husband." "But … you

The ooloi have seen to it that you'll have a chance to live on your Earth—not just to die on it.

Octavia E. Butler

Change does scare most people.

CIVILIZATION IS TO GROUPS what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.

CIVILIZATION IS TO GROUPS what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive

Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying. Yet intelligence is demanding. If it is misdirected by accident or by intent, it can foster its own orgies of breeding and dying.

Our adults haven't been wiped out by a plague so they're still anchored in the past, waiting for the good old days to come back. But things have changed a lot, and they'll change more. Things are always changing. This is just one of the big jumps instead of the little step-by-step changes that are easier to take. People have changed the climate of the world. Now they're waiting for the old days to come back.

They were slow changes compared to anything that might happen here, but it took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change.

Different is threatening to most species," Nikanj answered. "Different is dangerous. It might kill you. That was true to your animal ancestors and your nearest animal relatives. And it's true for you." Nikanj smoothed its head tentacles. "It's safer for your people to overcome the feeling on an individual basis than as members of a large group. That's why we've handled this the way we have.

the Apocalypse" or more commonly, more bitterly, "the Pox" lasted from 2015 through 2030—a decade and a half of chaos. This

That scares me to death sometimes—always feeling driven to do something I don't know how to do. But I'm learning as I go along.

Sometimes she sounded as though she'd never left, and sometimes she sounded as though she'd never been near any part of the south. She seemed to be able to turn the accent on and off. She tended to turn it on for comforting people, and for threatening to kill them.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.